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    This document provides an overview of major authors and literary movements from ancient times to the late 20th century. It begins with foundations in 900 BC-1599 AD including Arabian Nights, Beowulf, The Odyssey, Aesop's Fables, and Shakespeare. The 17th century is described as the Age of Reason featuring prose works with intellect like Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels. The 18th century saw the Age of Science with works from authors like John Donne, John Bunyan, and Aphra Behn. Major periods highlighted include the Romantics in the late 18th-early 19th century and the Victorians in the 1830s-1880s featuring writers such as the

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    This document provides an overview of major authors and literary movements from ancient times to the late 20th century. It begins with foundations in 900 BC-1599 AD including Arabian Nights, Beowulf, The Odyssey, Aesop's Fables, and Shakespeare. The 17th century is described as the Age of Reason featuring prose works with intellect like Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels. The 18th century saw the Age of Science with works from authors like John Donne, John Bunyan, and Aphra Behn. Major periods highlighted include the Romantics in the late 18th-early 19th century and the Victorians in the 1830s-1880s featuring writers such as the

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    V. Woolf J.R. Tolkein Orwell


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    Henry James initially Victorian then post Victorian lmodernistic - Portrait of Lady - The Ambassadors

    Mark Trvain r I-lucklebel'ry lrinn

    VICTORIAN
    Golden Age - writers able to live by writing serialisation / periodicals - long complex e.g. Forsyte Saga!
    1830 +

    Dickens - social deprivation Arnold - crisis; faith & cultut"e Darwin -- disturbing treatise on religion v philosophy

    l8 47

    Ilronte sisters - probes thc llsychology of elrrotional relatiorrships


    Thackeray,r class r consciouslless - darnaging effect Gaskell r biography of Clral'lotte Bronte
    Lewis Gaskell - Alice in Wonderland - fantasy!

    1848

    l86s

    1872

    trliot - study of social / political / historical problenrs


    Hardy- poetic novel - danlages to rural Al'eas - intlustrialisation vulnet.A ble position rlf fclnale r pessirnistic r Hardy a n ticipates C20 tvriters

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    MAry Shelley's Frankellstein

    1775-lg 17 LIazl itt's Spirit of Age

    Jane Austen:

    first para of Emnla ) irony, satire more ul keeping with previous age

    some periods categorised e.g. Romantics / victorians but rnuch overlapping to be categorised as Literay Movements.

    AGE OF RtrASON
    Prose consisted of pieces rvritten with intellect: consisted of argument, rvit, thesis, satire

    Dnniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

    Swift's Gullivet'rs Travels

    Snrnuel RicAl'dsoll?s Parnela (special corn lnetnora tive mugs r like

    Sterne?s

    Ilenry fielding's
    'Iom Jones

    Tristt'anl
    ShAndy

    Iranny But'ney ( influence on .lane Austen )

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    AGE OF SCIENCE
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    1660

    1669

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    1688

    John Donne
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    Establishing a Commonwealth

    I'epys' f)iaries

    .Iohn llunyants Pilgrinr's


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    Mrs Aphl'a llenn


    ( first notable rvonlen rvriter )

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    1599

    Arabian I(nights

    Beolvolf

    The Odessey

    Aesopts Irables

    Decanleron Boccitccio

    Joltn Wyclifl'e

    Sltakespeit!'e

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